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Lakes, Richard D. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
Neoliberal governments consider global business competitiveness to be thwarted by costly bureaucratic regulation and programme duplication. In an effort to downsize the costs of operating a state, the governors now streamline job training functions via a coordinated workforce and economic development effort known as sector strategies, with…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Job Training, Economic Climate, Vocational Education
Layard, Richard, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book contains 12 papers that were produced as a result of a seminar program on selected issues central to the debate over job training in Great Britain. The first paper, "Why We Need a Training Reform Act" (Richard Layard, Ken Mayhew, Geoffrey Owen), examines existing deficiencies in vocational education and training in Britain and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Responsibility, Comparative Analysis, Economic Development